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Why the U.S. Housing Recovery Is Leaving Poorer Neighborhoods Behind

The housing rebound may have lifted home prices across much of the nation. But cities like Lithonia, Ga., are still waiting for the bounce.Read More

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Join us for a Customer Experience Revolution at the Secret Service Summit on November 4th and 5th in Cleveland, OH. Network and learn with today's thought leaders and innovator's of customer experience. Read More

REPORT DEFLATES BUBBLE TALK WITH SUBDUED HOUSING FORECAST

Realty TimesBy: Broderick Perkins

Tempering bubble talk with more pragmatic foresight, Capital Economics says the housing market is due for a bit of a reality check, even as the recovery continues. Read More

INVESTORS COOLING ON "REO TO RENT"

CNBCBy: Diana Olick / Photo by: Alex Slobodkin

The latest Memphis Invest & Premier Property Management Group market and investors trends survey was released last week with some new revelations about real estate investor plans for 2013. Read More

SINGLE FAMILY RENTERS MORE LIKELY TO STAY IN PLACE

The Niche ReportBy: Steve Cook

The survey also found: Single family renters make more money and are nearly twice as likely to have children as apartment dwellers. Median income for a single family renter is $75-100,000 (66%) versus $50,000-75000 (51%) for a multifamily tenant. Single family households are larger; some 65 percent have three or more members compared to 32 percent of apartment households. Some 63 percent of single family households include children; only 34 percent of apartment renters have children living with them. Most single family tenants are older, aged 35-44 (53%) compared to 14-34 (46%) and 65+ (61%) for apartment dwellers. Compared to apartment dwellers, single family renters value neighborhood features important to children, such as parks and playgrounds (65% to 71%), good schools (72% to 82%) and safe neighborhoods (97% to 98%). Read More

MEMPHIS INVEST SPENT $3.1 MILLION IN REDEVELOPMENT

The Daily NewsBy: Sarah Baker

Memphis Invest, a single-family rental real estate investment services firm, sold 164 homes during the third quarter and spent $3.1 million with 58 local small businesses completing redevelopment of those properties. Those companies collectively employ approximately 250 workers. Read More

WHAT NEXT FOR HOUSING? 6 AMERICANS' CONCERNS AS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES LOOM

AOL Real EstateBy: Teke Wiggin

With the first presidential debate of the 2012 election set to kick off Wednesday, Americans may soon get a clearer picture of where President Barack Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney stand on housing and a better sense of the policies that they might implement. Read More

SURVEY SHOWS ACTIVE REAL ESTATE INVESTORS STILL BUYING

Realtor.comBy: Diedre Woollard

A new survey shows that active real estate investors are still ready to buy up plenty of properties. A joint BiggerPockets.com/Memphis Invest survey conducted by ORC International for BiggerPockets.com shows that despite rising prices and shrinking foreclosure inventories, 65 percent of active real estate investors plan to buy as many or more residential properties in the next 12 months as they did in the past year. Read More

MOST ACTIVE REAL ESTATE INVESTORS PLAN TO BUY AS MANY OR MORE PROPERTIES OVER NEXT 12 MONTHS

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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 20, 2012 - /PRNewswire/ - Despite rising prices and shrinking foreclosure inventories, 65 percent of active real estate investors plan to buy as many or more residential properties in the next 12 months as they did in the past year, according to a new joint BiggerPockets.com/Memphis Invest national survey conducted by ORC International for BiggerPockets.com, the nation's largest and most active real estate investing social network, and Memphis Invest, one of the nation's leading providers of single-family rental real estate investment services. Read More

MEMPHIS INVEST PURCHASES NEW BUILDING TO EXPAND CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

The Daily NewsBy: Sarah Baker

In other commercial leasing news, 124 Timber Creek GP, an entity of Memphis Invest LLC, has bought the 4,800-square-foot office building at 124 Timber Creek in Cordova for $475,000.Read More

Many of these single-family renters are like Jacobs' tenants, whom, he said, are "fairly conscientious people that just went through a foreclosure crisis" and want to retain some semblance of homeownership. Read More

New Ways to Profit From Single Family Homes

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Two-and-a-half years into the U.S. housing recovery, the real-estate industry is rolling out new ways for individuals to invest in the property market.Read More

AS RENTERS MOVE IN, SOME HOMEOWNERS FRET

New York TimesBy: Shaila Dewan / Photo by: LANCE MURPHEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Across the country, a growing number of single-family rentals provide an option for many who lost their homes in the housing crash through foreclosure and for those who cannot obtain a mortgage under today’s tougher credit conditions. But the decline in homeownership is also changing many neighborhoods in profound ways, including reduced home values, lower voter turnout and political influence, less social stability and higher crime. Read More

MEMPHIS INVEST SEES FEW LIMITS TO GROWTH

Memphis Business JournalBy: Ed Arnold / Photo by: Alan Howell

2013 Memphis Business Journal Business of the Year Award recipient, Memphis Invest, puts this award above all other national accolades the company has received. Read More

NEW SURVEY FINDS 80 PERCENT OF SINGLE FAMILY TENANTS PLEASED WITH MANAGEMENT

Yahoo FinanceBy: Yahoo Editors

A majority of single-family property renters rank their satisfaction with property management as good or excellent. While single-family renters rank their satisfaction with management high, only 63% of multi-family renters rank their satisfaction as good or excellent. Read More

SURVEY: SINGLE-FAMILY RENTERS MORE LIKELY TO STAY LONGER

Wall Street journalBy: Nick Timiraos

The survey, conducted by ORC International for Premier Property Management, also found that a majority of apartment and single-family renters indicated that they rent because they enjoy the lifestyle, and not because they’re unable to get a mortgage. Less than one third of renters cited an inability to get a mortgage as the reason they won’t become a homeowner within five years. Read More

REPEAT HOME BUYERS FUEL HOUSING RECOVERY

CBS Money WatchBy: Ilyce Glink

(MoneyWatch) Across most of the country, home prices remain affordable and rents continue to rise. And while today's investors are helping the housing recovery, they're not completely responsible. Data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) suggests that traditional repeat buyers are driving today's market. Read More

INVESTORS READY TO TAKE BIGGER BITE OUT OF MARKET

Realtor MagazineBy: Daily Real Estate News Editor

Rising home prices haven't deterred investors from the housing market, according to a new survey by real estate-centered companies BiggerPockets.com and Memphis Invest. In fact, nearly 40 percent of real estate investors say they plan to purchase more properties over the next 12 months than they did last year. Read More

REAL ESTATE INVESTORS PLAN TO PURCHASE MORE HOMES IN U.S.

Bloomberg BusinessweekBy: John Gittlesohn

Almost two-thirds of U.S. residential real estate investors plan to buy as many as or more homes in the next 12 months than they have in the past year even as prices rise, according to a survey released today. Read More

HOUSING CRISIS TURNS SOME EX-HOMEOWNERS INTO LIFELONG RENTERS

AOL Real EstateBy: Teke Wiggin

It's not that he always felt this way. Williams (pictured at left) did profit handsomely from the housing market's boom years, selling a Sacramento home in 2005 for more than twice as much as he purchased it for in 2001. He also bought, rehabbed and sold several homes with his friends. Read More

BECOME A MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE MOGUL

Money MagazineBy: Lisa Gibbs

(Money magazine) - Becoming a landlord has always been a well-worn path to millionaire status, with good reason: Not only does owning properties let you generate a second source of income, your tenants' checks will help you build equity in your investment. Read More

MEMPHIS INVEST ANNOUNCES YTD SALES, HOLDS INVESTOR WEEKEND

DS NewsBy: Tory Barringer

Memphis Invest announced today that it has sold 229 homes to out-of-town, independent investors since January in a run-up to a recent investor weekend. Read More

HOUSING’S SILVER LINING: TURNING REOS INTO RENTALS

Agent Genius BeatBy: Tara Steele

With a continually struggling housing market, the prognosis for the sector is still poor, but there are areas of the nation and types of investments that are improving greatly, pointing to signs of life in real estate. One company embodies the signs of health, a family-owned company in Memphis that focuses on the REO-to-rental market. Read More